[mythtv-users] HDPVR and Live TV - Does anyone have this working?

[John P Poet]

On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 5:28 PM, John Nissley <jnissley at nissley.org> wrote:
> I have two HDPVR's since my cable provider has the copy bit set.  The
> HDPVR is doing a good job recording shows but since my cable provider
> will start phasing out analog channels I want to get live tv working for
> my wife.  When I change channels with my HD Home Run in live TV the
> channel changes fine.  When I try to do the same with the HDPVR 80% of
> the time I get a failure.  The jist of the failure is that mythtv can
> not find the ringbuffer file to play from.  The initial channel is found
> correctly but on channel change is when the failure happens.
>
> Is anyone else able to watch live tv from the hdpvr input?
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I bug was found recently in the HD-PVR kernel driver.  Once that is
fixed, it should solve your problem.

If you compile from source, I can send you a patch for Myth, that
seems to help.  Which version of Myth are you running?


John
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